Di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate enhances atopic dermatitis-like skin lesions in mice

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1266-1269

  Takano, Hirohisa ^a,b   Yanagisawa, Rie ^a   Inoue, Ken Ichiro ^a   Ichinose, Takamichi ^c   Sadakane, Kaori ^c   Yoshikawa, Toshikazu ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OITA UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atopic dermatitis; Chemokines; di (2 ethylhexyl) phthalate; Eosinophils; Mast cells

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; CHEMOKINE; EOTAXIN; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EXPOSURE; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RODENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKINFOLD;

ANIMALS; CHEMOKINES; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; EAR, EXTERNAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SKIN;

ACARI; RODENTIA;

EID: 33746863759     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8985     Document Type: Article

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